This week Angela has been providing lots of opportunities to encounter and explore numbers in outdoor play activities.  These have been really popular with the children and it has been great to watch those, whose knowledge of number is really … Continue reading →

We are starting the term with some interesting visitors to nursery.  Some bears have moved into our Nursery Reading Corner – some of them are quite big – indeed you can barely move for them!!! (Ha Ha!)  These bears love … Continue reading →

  Last Wednesday we added a coconut shy to our active maths activity and the children made sums from the numbers on the nuts that they knocked down. The Pirate Chefs were the Black Pearl Crew this week and they … Continue reading →

Today was an exciting day in Nursery for our pre-school children-  the very first day of our Pirates Active Learning Project with Primary 1. We were asked to imagine that our Pirate Ship had been wrecked on a desert island and that … Continue reading →

Lauren has been working with the children on what started as a Jungle Reading Corner, but which has turned into a Wild Animals Story Corner, as we researched some of the animals we had chosen and found that they didn’t … Continue reading →

Paw Patrol is very popular in nursery and Julie noticed Paw Patrol role play going on last week.  None of the staff knew much about Paw Patrol, so Julie did some active research (i.e. watched some!) and is now our … Continue reading →

  This morning Maureen had lots of volunteers helping to create this amazing ambulance in the imaginative area.  Look how carefully they are painting the luminous pattern on the side.  The wheels have to be black with shiny bits in … Continue reading →

Monday has been cold but very beautiful.  We have spent a lot of time in our garden today finding lots of sheet ice.  This afternoon’s creations included Thomas the Tank Engine made from logs, which we had to write the … Continue reading →